Be More Chill - 2019 Broadway History , Info & More
Lyceum Theatre (Broadway)
149 W. 45th St. New York, NY 10036
BEING A LOSER HAS NEVER BEEN SO COOL.
Broadway's new musical sensation is BE MORE CHILL. It's already "one of the most popular new musicals in America," raves The New York Times. And The Wall Street Journal cheers, "It's going to hit big - and deservedly so!" Discover this hilariously honest show for yourself, featuring an electric, ear-worm filled score by "one of Broadway's next great songwriters" (Billboard).
What if popularity came in a pill? Would you take it, no questions asked? In BE MORE CHILL, achieving the "perfect life" is now possible thanks to some mysterious new technology - but it comes at a cost that's not as easy to swallow. What could possibly go wrong? Blending the contemporary with retro sci-fi, this thrillingly exciting, comically subversive, and deeply felt new musical takes on the competing voices in all of our heads. And ultimately proves, there's never been a better time in history to be yourself - especially if you're a loser... geek... or whatever.
Be More Chill - 2019 - Broadway Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR Be More Chill
REVIEW: Broadway's 'Be More Chill' is an overplayed and overwrought musical about teen life in a hi-tech world
3 / 10
If all of its overplayed, insecure, overwrought, dial-in-the-red-zone freneticism could have been avoided, we'd actually have an interesting Broadway show that not only reveals just how terrified we all are about the encroachments of digitized technology on our human bodies - and of teenage addiction to medication - but also how difficult it is to pull off weird 'Little Shop of Horrors'-style satire in this moralistic moment when every show has the same thing to teach. Be your nerdy self and let your freak flag fly! They won't love you 'till you love yourself.
Review: Anxious Teenagers Learn to ‘Be More Chill’ on a Big Stage
4 / 10
For one thing, it is - by cold critical standards - the worst of the lot, with a repetitive score, painfully forced rhymes, cartoonish acting and a general approach that mistakes decibel level (literally and metaphorically) for emotional intensity. But this ostensible amateurishness may be exactly what sells 'Be More Chill' to its young target audience. Alone among Broadway musicals, 'Be More Chill' feels as if it could have been created by the teenagers it portrays, or perhaps by even younger people imagining what high school will be like. Though its production values have been souped up since I saw it in August, the show's current incarnation - which features the same cast and is again directed by Stephen Brackett - remains a festival of klutziness that you could imagine being put together in the bedrooms and basements of young YouTubers.
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Be More Chill History
Other Productions of Be More Chill
| 2018 | Off-Broadway |
New York Premiere at Signature Center Off-Broadway |
| 2019 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 2021 | West End |
West End Premiere West End |
Be More Chill - 2019 Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical | Bobby Frederick Tilly II |
| 2019 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | George Salazar |
| 2019 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Stephanie Hsu |
| 2019 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Joe Iconis |
| 2019 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Joe Iconis |
| 2019 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | Be More Chill |
| 2019 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Charlie Rosen |
| 2019 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Charlie Rosen |
| 2019 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Projection Design | Alex Basco Koch |
| 2019 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical | Be More Chill |
| 2019 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | George Salazar |
| 2019 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Be More Chill |
| 2019 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Score | Joe Iconis |
| 2019 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Projection Design | Alex Basco Koch |
| 2019 | Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Joe Iconis |
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